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...constancy but of his perfidy. Mandela must worry about the Chief Luthuli complex. Luthuli was the leader of the A.N.C. who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 at the very moment the A.N.C. was turning to armed struggle. Even as he was receiving the award, Luthuli, noble, stalwart, unshakable, was yesterday's man. That is how some of today's young lions in the townships see Mandela. They do not like Mandela's sharing even a podium with De Klerk, for to them sharing means equating, and De Klerk is the enemy. It is these young people...
...could find it easier to push reforms through - although his allies say they'll proceed with caution to avoid alienating the millions of Indians who haven't shared in the country's economic boom. "No policy should be forced down people's throats," says Kapil Sibal, a Congress Party stalwart and minister in Singh's government. "Growth with equity will be the mantra going forward." The Congress Party recently began running newspaper advertisements trumpeting its commitment to rural development...
...movie beats down even the most stalwart viewer's resistance, in a Guantánamo of giddiness. The supporting actresses help out. Baranski, slim and large-mouthed, and Walters, wizened and hiding behind shades, might be Mick and Keith in a Rolling Stones girl tribute band, and they lend all their show-biz savvy to vivid renditions of, respectively, Does Your Mother Know and Take a Chance on Me. Seyfried, from the HBO series Big Love, is in full control of Sophie, the film's one sensible character. And Streep comes back to earth in a handsomely calibrated rendition...
...been growing steadily, has been hit hard by spiking fuel and food costs. The parliamentary coalition that eclipsed the former military leader, Pervez Musharraf, promised to bring peace and progress. Instead, the new leaders are preoccupied with wrangling over who is in charge. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a stalwart of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), bows to Asif Zardari, Bhutto's widower, who is co-chair of the party but does not hold government office. The government is an unwieldy coalition between bitter enemies: the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League-N, led by former Prime Minister...
...tempting to think of Libertarianism as nothing more than old-school Republicanism, but it's always been partially left-wing, drawing from a long history of American anarchism. The modern challenge is to unite those two wings--or, as magician (and stalwart Libertarian) Penn Jillette told me, "Convince the dope guys that the gun guys are O.K., and vice versa." And many Libertarians believe the time is now. It helps that the U.S. has been throttled for a century by two parties whose core differences are narrowing. The current general election has seemed at times a contest about...